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Russia has showcased its hypersonic supermissile factory just days after meeting with US PresidentDonald Trump in Helsinki. Video footage released by the country's defence ministry shows cutting edge weapon technologies being manufactured, assembled and tested at the Avangard plant ... The liquid-fueled, superheavy thermonuclear armed intercontinental ballistic missile was developed to replace the old SS-18Satan missile ... Sarmat) ... ....

(CNN)Russia's Ministry of Defense released video footage Friday of a test launch of its new intercontinental ballistic missile, the Sarmat. The short video said the missile -- nicknamed "Satan 2" -- was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia ... The first test was in December ... The RS-28 Sarmat is designed to replace the Soviet-era Voevoda ICBM, known by the NATO designation SS-18Satan ... ....

The RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)—known to the NATOWestern military alliance as SS-X-30 Satan 2—along with a nuclear-powered cruise missile, the Kanyon long-range torpedo and the Kinzhal hypersonic missile could all potentially be fitted with nuclear warheads and trump U.S ... They are intended to replace the aging RS-36M, originally dubbed SS-18Satan by NATO during the height of the Cold War in the 1970s....

Moscow (CNN)Russian PresidentVladimir Putin has raised hackles in Washington with his claim -- unveiled Thursday -- that Russia is fielding a formidable new arsenal that can thwart US ballistic missile defenses ... A new generation of intercontinental ballistic missile. The Sarmat would be a more capable rocket designed to replace the Voevoda ICBM, known by the NATO designation SS-18Satan ... Is it deployed? No ... Read More ... JUST WATCHED ... ....

When I meet Yus beside a once-dreaded but now-defunct "Satan" SS-18 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that he designed at the height of the Cold War, he's cheerful yet appears somewhat surprised to find an American on the other side of a handshake ... But his legacy is built on the massive ICBMs he designed, like the Satan, as the ......

The button that could have started a nuclear holocaust is gray -- not red ... The officers never knew what day their practice codes might become real, nor did they know their targets ... The museum's collection includes the R-12/SS-4 Sandal missile similar to those involved in the Cuban missile crisis and the RS-20A/SS-18Satan, the versions of which had several hundred times the destructive power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima ... Source ... ....

Russia also said it was ready to begin work on its notorious ‘Satan 2’ missile, which can carry 10 thermonuclear warheads, enough to devastate an entire country ... It was no secret that Vladimir Putin was seeking to replace his deadly arsenal of SS-18 weapons, branded ‘the Satan’ ... Vladimir Putin was seeking to replace his deadly arsenal of SS-18 weapons (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin PoolPhoto via AP)....

(CNN)When lecturing, I often ask students and young officers if they have seen the movie "Dr. Strangelove." About a third typically raise their hands ...PeterZwack. Earlier this week, Russia made international headlines with the unveiling of its RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), fittingly nicknamed "Satan 2" after its monstrous SS-18 predecessor ... Read More. What should we make of such statements? ... Follow CNN Opinion ... ....

Russia has unveiled the first image of its beast of a nuclear missile called the RS-28 Sarmat, also known as Satan-2 ... The Satan-2 has a top speed of 7 km per second ... The Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau had declassified the first image of Satan-2 ... A Russian intercontinental ballistic missile RS-20 (SS-18Satan according to the NATO code) takes off somewhere at undisclosed location in Russia in this June, 2001 photo....